Enduring city : Belfast in the twentieth century
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Enduring city : Belfast in the twentieth century
Blackstaff Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-350) and index
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Description
In "Enduring City", editors Frederick Boal and Stephen Royle bring together an impressive array of critics, scholars, and commentators to tell the story of Belfast and its people in the twentieth century.
Specially commissioned for this volume, the nineteen essays presented here record the highs and lows of a century of seismic change in Belfast's history. From politics and governance to education and health, planning and architecture, population and transport, religious identities and conflict, and popular culture and literary life, the contributors chart the evolution and development of Belfast over the course of the last century. Broad and wide-ranging, the essays deal with the political, cultural, social and physical changes that impacted on the city, including the devastation of the blitz; the economic depression of the 1930s; segregation and population redistribution; the deindustrialisation of the city in the second half of the twentieth century; the troubles; and changes to the built fabric of the city, such as the redevelopment of the waterfront and the ongoing regeneration of the city centre.
Lavishly illustrated with over three hundred photographs and maps, "Enduring City" paints a vivid and detailed picture of Belfast in the twentieth century and of the complex and sometimes conflicting ways in which it has been experienced, perceived and imagined by its citizens.
Table of Contents
- FOUNDATIONS 1 Enduring City Frederick W. Boal and Stephen A. Royle 2 Belfast: Foundations of the Twentieth Century Stephen A. Royle NUTS AND BOLTS 3 Bricks, Stone, Concrete and Steel: The Built Fabric of Twentieth-Century Belfast Paul Larmour 4 Big Processes and Little People: The Population of Metropolitan Belfast 1901-2001 Frederick W. Boal 5 From Smokestacks to Service Economy: Foundations for a Competitive City? Mark Hart 6 Belfast: Return from Motown? Austin Smyth SHAPING THE CITY 7 Governing the City Jonathan Bardon 8 Planning the City
- Planning the Region Bill Morrison 9 Back to the River: The Lagan and Belfast in the Twentieth Century Frederick W. Boal TOGETHER AND APART 10 Landscape of Spires John D. Brewer, Margaret C. Keane and David N. Livingstone 11 Past and Future: Imagining and Visioning the City William J.V. Neill 12 Memorialising and Marking the Great War: Belfast Remembers Nuala C. Johnson 13 Belfast: The Killing Fields Russell C. Murray, with an addendum by Frederick W. Boal MIND AND BODY 14 Health in Belfast: The Vital Statistics of Poverty Alun Evans 15 Educating the City E.J. Creighton 16 Popular Culture Jonathan Bardon THE BELFAST MOSAIC 17 'The Place had Character' Patricia Craig 18 Village Voices Patricia Craig INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 19 Belfast: The Way Ahead Marie-Therese McGivern
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